Show CAN A WHALE HALi IM eo ew York Sun whales swim last fast Why Wh s said an old whal man jet iet me give you OU tn n t tJ J iea e f h ho fast the they cm can swim At Atthe t the tUne of f the war I was out In the Inc good old bark Abbie Turner Captain Joshu or of N Ney on the ft fIshing ing grounds ground alter after a sperm whale We met with a school of thc them m one day about one hundred miles to the t the e Azores j Captain Joshua Josinia threw Ills his maintop sell saIl aback and hove hoc the old hoo hooler r to i and then we p put t itt In the Hie boats after I Ith th the whales We Ye had a long pull to get gel i near any of them but finally we did up U a that j wa was sort of ut u abo about t and the harpoon man nailed hIm hImI I Sa Say Those were the days das or of h ile le fishing the daya before the introduction tion ot of the bomb lance when you had hadt t tim la lay at as boat Tight right alongside a whale to get a harpoon Into him at all when harpooning called for strength and cold nerve nene s as skill But they used to do It and sometimes smoke another Iron into a whale before the Iboa boat could baCk away I Well Vell our man gave the whale whaI the harp harpoon on and the instant he got it down I he went nent sounding and when he came ame ameI I up away he flew with everything set and drawing double so to speak with time the bow or of the boat snapping anti and dancing through the water and throwing up a great spray spra I was pulling bow oar In that boat sitting rIght back k Of the harpoon man and the tub and that sizzling line and andI I dropped my head and slewed it round rounda a little so 50 the spray pray fly Ily Into my eyes and that brought my mJ head down so that I see eTY well I around just where we were going anti and antiI I want to see anyway and so I I kept my head down like that for Cor what seem to the me more mor than a minute or so jU just t tin till things got settled down downa a little and w when en I look looked d up I When we struck k that whale hale we vere down a good tEn miles to lee rd f the Abbie but hen I looked up b by l jingo we e were ten miles to ind rd o oher oher her In just that little time that ute or so that rd Id my head down lIke that to keep th the rn eyes ces that whale had snaked us a go good d twenty ty miles Can swim f fast st Why Vh If it was to mat h t likely seventy foot sperm whale against a torpedo boat Id bet on h w every time |